Lukacs’ art not fit for liv

K. THE three Ts —

Tibet, Taiwan,

Tiananmen. Got
that? Don’t mention Tibet,
Taiwan, Tiananmen.

Louise Aird
BRIGHT LIGHTS

We were en route to the

Chinese consulate and my friend

. was terrified that | was going to

. upset our host. Like I just fell off a_
turnip truck.

Of course, once he’d reminded
me about these issues, | had this
incredible urge to walk up to
someone and ask about Ihasa apso
grooming tips.

And then he passed a lone pro-
tester and a couple of RCMP (who,
| could swear, were conversing in
German), and arrived at the
Chinese consul general’s annual
reception, which, | guess, is to
thank supporters in the Chinese
and non-Chinese communities.

Abcut 500 people were there,
schmoozing and munching
Chinese delicacies under huge
tents. Not too many familiar faces,
though.

From West Van, there was Mr.
and Mrs. M. Malik — he’s the
consul general of India and
doesn’t like to use his first name —
and lawyer/Luxembourg consul
Klaus Priebe; and Mel Zajac was
there with Moroccan consul Percy
Lipinski.

Didn’t find the crowd too friend-

ly actually, but | noted that a few
women are blazing a new trail in
fashion — short skirts, knee-high
stockings, sensible shoes. Lovely.
In a carefully worded speech,
which his Chinese guests ignored
and to which Anglos listened in-
tently, consul general An Wenbin
talked about how ‘‘The Revolu-
tion’ made the Chinese masters of
their and but how ‘‘economic
prosperity did not come until

a

KLAUS PRIEBE, West Van
lawyer and consul for Luxem-
bourg, was at the Chinese
consulate genezal’s party.

NTION

recently, when the Chinese
discovered money.”’ (222)

Premier Mike sent his regrets —
too busy looking for women will-
ing to run for the Senate, | guess
— but Economic Development
Minister David Zirnhelt stood by
as Wendin said that 50 new
Chinese cities are open to foreign
investors, 30,000 foreign invest-
ment prospects with 120 countries
have been initiated and vigorous
policy reform is ongoing.

| believe he failed to messtion
trade with Canada, but he did say
that the Chinese-U.S. trade vol-
ume is in the area of $200 billion.
How nice for them.

Overheard diplomatic corps
members discussing a trip they'd
taken to the Queen Charlottetown
Islands. Apparently the islands
aren't as pristine as we think —
there was talk of rotting cars, rot-
ting deer carcasses and an alleged-
ly common practice of pouring
detergent into the rivers to force
fish downstream.

Sounds a little wild, but my call
for comment was met with an
abrupt click, so | suppose we have
to draw our own conclusions — or
leave it up to Greenpeace to deal
with.

xu

Equity magazine and Le Meri-
dien were sponsors of the third

8.C. Minister of Economic De-
velopment David Zirnhelt at
this year’s reception at the
Chinese consulate general.

“Reach Out — Vancouver
Style,’ the United Way’s (UW)
annual fundraising kick-off.

This event takes the form ofa
luncheon, following which
members of the business com-
munity model fashions provided
by Oakridge Centre retailers.

The UW's Mike O'Connor
opened the luncheon by saying
that, although current economic
conditions make fundraising more
difficult, the United Way hopes to
bring in $17.5 million, up from
$17 million in 1991.

The luncheon, as usual at Le
Meridien, was superb and al! 250
guests enjoyed themselves im-
mensely.

There were lots of laughs — in
addition to modelling, the models
had to list their pet peeves and
ambitions.

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Photos Louise Aird

ANE FARRIS Gallery’s Anne Macautay with Attila Richard Lukacs at the gallery’s party celebrating
the exhibition of the Canadian artist’s work.

West Van was well represented.
Although Margareta designer San-
dy Elliott failed to receive credit
for a suit she’d submitted, Gayle
Hallgren elegantly modeiled
maternity wear, and realtor John
Jennings and BCTV’s Michael
Meade did a splendid job of
displaying quality menswear.

And their bios were among the
best. Jennings said that he’s single
but in training for children, that his
pet peeve is people who wear the
same item two days in a row (for
which MC Doc Harris gave him
the “Profundity Award"), and
that his ambition is to marry a
woman who's too proud to let her
husband work.

Meade's ambition? To die of a
heart attack, in his car, on the
Lions Gate Bridge at 8 o'clock on
a Monday morning — just to tick
off the entire North Shore in one

go.
kk

No doubt about it — every party
at the Diane Farris Gallery is inter-
esting. The most recent was for the
exhibition of works by Attila
Richard Lukacs. Lukacs, who
lives in Germany, is now probably
Canada’s best-known living artist
and his 20-foot canvases are avidly
collected — despite their price
tags.

Lukacs has ditched his an-
ti-fascist themes, but this is still not
exactly stuff for the living room,

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Claudia Cuesta and New York art critic Robert Mahoney, who was
impressed by more than just the art.

unless you're inte bald stocky
young men frolicking in the grass
~ although you do have a choice
between men in jackboots with
leather G-strings and men without
jackboots or G-strings.

There was an impressive turnout
by well-known Canadian artists at
the party.

Chris Reed, whose focus is the .
plight of the Canadian farmer, was’
there, as was fashion designer
Rodney Clarke, painter Cornelia
Wyngaarden, West Coast art guru
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Terry Ewasiuk, painter Vincent
Trasov (who, I'm told, descends
from Russian royalty), and sculptor
Claudia Cuesta, who's just moved
to West Van from London.

And not every Vancouver gallery
hosts a real-live New York art crit-
ic. Robert Mahoney was in
specifically for the Lukacs show
and was very impressed — with
the paintings (which were selling
nicely), with Vancouver, and with
Canadians. He kept remarking on
how good-looking we allj are.

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